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Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
The Rule of Lawless Meets a Notion of Immigrants 0
The EFF reports that the Trump maladministration wants to track those who disagree with its tactics. A snippet:
These subpoenas are unlawful, and the government knows it. When a handful of users challenged a few of them in court with the help of ACLU affiliates in Northern California and Pennsylvania, DHS withdrew them rather than waiting for a decision.
These subpoenas are unlawful, and the government knows it.
Smoot-Hawley Redux 0
Farron discusses how much Trump’s tariffs are costing American consumers.
I think those folks who claim that Donald Trump truly doesn’t understand how tariffs work may be onto something.
Words Have Meanings, American Stasi Dept. 0
At Above the Law, Jonathan Wolf reports that :ICE “kidnapped” some of the staff of his favorite burrito shop. Later on in the article, he explains his use fo that term (emphasis added):
The color of someone’s skin or the fact that they speak English with an accent does not amount to probable cause.
Republican Thought Police, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
It’s no jump to claim that the Trump maladministration wants to erase history that puts the lie to their prejudices.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness goes to for the dogs.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Minute and a half long promo at about the one minute mark. Mild language.)
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Trump maladministration’s attempt to indict Congresspersons for reminding military personnel that their oaths of allegiance do not require them to break the law didn’t go over well with the grand jury.
Hunt Clubs 0
Thom has seen this before. A snippet:
Every modern society that normalizes hunts of the poor, the dark-skinned, the undocumented, or the politically inconvenient eventually discovers that the culturally acceptable definition of undesirable keeps expanding.
Republican Thought Police 0
Sen. Marsha Blackburn wants to know how Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had the unmitigated gall to attend that subversive treasonous Grammies awards ceremony.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At Psycnology Today Blogs, Sebastien Montel why persons will say things on the inner webs that they would never consider saying to someone face-to-face. Given the state of dis coarse discourse, I think his article is quite timely and well worth a read.
Here’s one factor he mentions:
American Stasi 0
At Above the Law, in the midst of a longer story about efforts by lawyers and law students to pressure (the Republican-controlled) Congress to require the Trump maladministration’s ICE to obey the law, lies this little fact:
All the News that Fits 0
Thom looks at how Trump is replacing the “Voice of America” with the “Voices of Oligarchy.” (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)